HEQAGA SABE AND OTHERS TO AN OMAHA. 639 
NOTES. 
All the Ponkas, except Jinga-nuda®, mentioned in this letter, were scholars of the 
author. Standing Buffalo was the younger man of that name. 
The creek called ‘“Cehit‘a,” or ‘Where apple trees abound”, is probably Willow 
Creek, a tributary of the Niobrara River, Nebraska, 
TRANSLATION. 
Little Picker (or Grazer) fell, but he has returned alive without being struck by 
the Dakotas. They dashed on us again. We chased them to the head of Willow 
Creek (?). We overtook seven horsemen, who assaulted us. We threw ourselves to 
the ground, to hide, one after another (2). Knows-the-Land was brave; Big Grizzly- 
bear was brave and dangerous (to the foe); he survives. Standing Buffalo was brave. 
Standing Buffalo wounded a Dakota with an arrow when he stood very close to him. 
Boy Warrior was brave. 
HEQAGA-SABE AND OTHERS TO AN OMAHA. 
Tiavadi Umaha yi cupi. Ki nijinga wiwija wéyi‘a® iwaddgiona, 
my 
Last fall Omaha house I went And boy ornament you told them 
thither about it, 
to you. 
. / . , . on , Peres Be 
nuona”ha, qi¢a maca™ wi", céna, wi’ ¢ana‘a®. Tfada™ ¢ati ha. Ma? zepé- 
otter skin, eagle quill- one, enough, you heard about for In the fall you . Hatchet 
feather me. came 
hither 
. , . + . , . v , 1 OO j y se , , 
niniba uwa¢agina, gind‘a’ ha, zani niyinga. Mazé-undji® maca-dag¢a™ 
pipe you told them they have 0 all boy. Iron shirt head-dress of eagle 
abon, it, heard of it, tail feathers 
their own 
ta , , ? , f<¢° , a v A , . , 
wa¢ige, yeha-nacabe, hibé, wa¢a‘i ‘i¢a¢é, ma” zé-ika"ta, céna, tiwad¢dgina, 
head cover- | buffalo robe smoked moc- you give youprom- metal arnilets, enough, you told them 
ing, dark, casins, tous ised, about it, 
. , y Tere Scy/ ae rey, roe , y I . 
i"¢ina-ctéwa"-baji. Waji'’ ¢i¢tya wag¢ai ‘i¢agée. Gata”adi ukét‘a® éska® a®- 
we did not beg of you in Disposition your you give you prom- At last toacquire perhaps we 
the least. own fous ised. it 
¢a™¢ai, éde edida™ tiwa¢dgind an‘kaji’qtia’. 
thought, but what you ola fhem is not so at all. 
abou 
NOTES. 
The letter was dictated by Heqaga-sabé in the presence of yajanga-naji", Ni-ane, 
and Miyasi-nikagahi. 
639, 1. gi cupi seems elliptical; perhaps it shonld be qii ¢a"ja cupi (to the village I 
went to you) I went to your village, as he did not go to a single Omaha house to the 
exclusion of all others. 
639, 4. wa¢age appears superfluous here. Ma"zé unaji® refers to some present 
rather than to the Ponka man, Iron Shirt. 
